Eloquent spaces: meaning and community in early Indian architecture
Introduction : towards a semantics of architecture / Shonaleeka Kaul -- Form, space, and consciousness : architectural principles in the vastushastras / Bettina Sharada Bäumer -- Breathing life into monuments of death : the stupa and the Buddha body in the socio-ecological landscape of Sanchi / Jul...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2019
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1664214356inh.htm
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| Author Notes: | edited by Shonaleeka Kaul |
| Summary: | Introduction : towards a semantics of architecture / Shonaleeka Kaul -- Form, space, and consciousness : architectural principles in the vastushastras / Bettina Sharada Bäumer -- Breathing life into monuments of death : the stupa and the Buddha body in the socio-ecological landscape of Sanchi / Julia Shaw -- Spatial and architectural constructs of tantric Buddhist mandalas : a cognitive approach / Pranshu Samdarshi -- The old temple of Basgo : a hypothesis on the superimposition of 'celestial assembly' on sculpture and sangha / Gerald Kozicz -- Temple and territory in the Puri Jagannath imaginaire -- Manu Devadevan -- Stepwells of western India : Rani ki vav at Patan / Rabindra Vasavada -- Outer places, inner spaces : constructing the gaze in Chola Chidambaram / Aleksandra Wenta -- Interpreting public space in the Jaina basadis of Moodabidri / Pratyush Shankar -- On the water's edge : tracing urban form in old Srinagar / Munishwar Nath Ashish Ganju. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780815382096 9780367225964 |